Great train journeys of the world

Now Charles may be rather an anorak when it comes to trains, besotted is another word which comes to mind - but today was the grand-daddy of all train journeys. We travelled from the joys of Baker Street to the nether reaches of the Diccapilly line, the final outpost - Cockfosters. The train was empty when we arrived, the final survivors having left at Arnos Grove. From the station we then marched to MoDA (Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture) to see the exhibition, titled The Shell Guides: Surrealism, Modernism, Tourism (Piper and Betjeman both having edited the Guides) - and excellent it was too - we were at first rather daunted by all the explanations but soon fell under the spell and came away envigorated and inspired. See www.moda.mdx.ac.uk/shell%20guides. Thence the marathon walk and train ride back to civilisation (the train was empty when we departed Cockfosters but people began to trickle on post Arnos Grove).